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The Poor People's Campaign (PPC) of 1968 was focused on highlighting, and ultimately reducing, poverty in the United States. As part of the campaign, protestors from across the country were transported to Washington, D.C. in 6 separate bus caravans, each of which made stops en route to rest,...
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market work--as requiring the most interaction with the native world, and these activities more than others fit the …
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's (1957) seminal work on employer discrimination - something which has not previously been done in the large economics … criticisms and extensions of the standard Becker model, including an argument of our own which, like some recent work, shows that …
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and pitcher match race/ethnicity. This effect only exists where there is little scrutiny of umpires' behavior -- in … determine the outcome of the at-bat. If a pitcher shares the home-plate umpire's race/ethnicity, he gives up fewer runs per game …
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Using nationally representative data on consumption, we show that Blacks and Hispanics devote larger shares of their expenditure bundles to visible goods (clothing, jewelry, and cars) than do comparable Whites. We demonstrate that these differences exist among virtually all sub-populations, that...
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Evidence from the American Time Use Survey 2003-12 suggests the existence of small but statistically significant racial/ethnic differences in time spent not working at the workplace. Minorities, especially men, spend a greater fraction of their workdays not working than do white non-Hispanics....
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fundamental challenges faced by empirical work in this area. Specifically, for work devoted to measuring whether and how much … of study. For work seeking to arbitrate empirically between the two main alternative theoretical explanations for such … recent and much less common. We highlight problems with both approaches. Throughout, we discuss recent work, which, the …
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. Time stress will be more prevalent in households with higher incomes and whose members work longer in the market or on … higher-income households perceive more time stress for the same amount of time spent in market work and household work. The …
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mask two interesting patterns: (a) gender difference at the cohort level had vanished by the early 1950 birth cohort and …
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Economic theories of discrimination are usually based on tastes. The huge body of empirical studies, however, considers the discriminatory outcomes that are the reduced-form results of interactions between tastes and opportunity sets. None examines tastes for discrimination directly, or...
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